The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity : men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. The Life of Nelson - Page 275by Robert Southey - 1828Full view - About this book
| 1901 - 768 pages
...curb. 2. For Greek Prose — The death of Nelson was felt in England as something move than a public calamity ; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale as if they heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and of... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1904 - 884 pages
...lie had received his wound. The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public within. ; artd it seemed as if we had never till then known how deeply we luved and reverenced him. What the... | |
| Ernest Edwin Speight, Robert Morton Nance - Explorers - 1906 - 448 pages
...a fragment while he lived. The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity ; men started at the intelligence and turned...our admiration and affection, of our pride and of hopes, was suddenly taken from us ; and it seemed as if we had never, till then, known how deeply we... | |
| Katharine Burrill - Bookbinding - 1906 - 240 pages
...rest. To quote Southey once more, he refers to the death of Nelson " as something more than a public calamity: men started at the intelligence, and turned...of our admiration and affection, of our pride and our hopes, was suddenly taken from us; and it seemed as if we had never, till then, known how deeply... | |
| Edward Potts Cheyney - Great Britain - 1908 - 830 pages
...a fragment while he lived. The death of Nelson was felt in England as something mo-e than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence and turned...then known how deeply we loved and reverenced him. . . . The people of England grieved that funeral ceremonies, and public monuments, and posthumous rewards... | |
| Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - English language - 1917 - 662 pages
...Sir Roger de Coverley Papers. The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity ; men started at the intelligence and turned...as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. ROBERT SOUTHEY : The Life of Nelson. It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual,... | |
| Charles Herbert Sylvester - Children's literature - 1922 - 530 pages
...a fragment while he lived. The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity : men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they hail heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and... | |
| Stephen Coleridge - English language - 1922 - 138 pages
...England as Queen of the Sea. " The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity ; men started at the intelligence, and turned pale, as if they tad heard of the loss of a dear friend. An object of our admiration and affection, of our pride and... | |
| Dudley Pope - Fiction - 1999 - 384 pages
...London. II Price of Victory The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned...as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend. — SOUTHEY LIEUTENANT LAPENOTIERE was already well on his way. By noon on Monday his postchaise was... | |
| Peter France, William St Clair - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 368 pages
...irresistibly courageous and familiar. 'The death of Nelson was felt in England as something more than a public calamity; men started at the intelligence, and turned...as if they had heard of the loss of a dear friend' (Nelson, 1813, Chapter 9). Similarly, in 1817 Mary Shelley chose to educate Frankenstein's Monster... | |
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